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13 Mar, 6 tweets, 3 min read
It's the 50th anniversary of emails and guess what? Probably no one is celebrating that. After studying the social effects of email for several years some experts are convinced that email is a curse.

#Opinion from David Olive:

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“It just clashes with our fundamental human wiring to have this non-stop piling up of communication from our tribe members that we can’t keep up with" - Cal Newport, author of “A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communications Overload."

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It is common to send and receive some 100 emails a day. A 2018 study found that about half of users checked their email and instant messages every six minutes or so.

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“No matter how much the frontal cortex tells us it’s OK, we don’t have to answer these emails right away, there’s a deeper part of our brain that’s worried," Newport adds.
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“And so, it makes us miserable, and it makes us terrible at work.”

Back-to-back Zoom meetings and checking your email every six minutes rule out repose. They leave you no time to think, without interruption, about what you are experiencing.

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What do you think? Should we be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the email? thestar.com/opinion/star-c…

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